Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.
A promise made must be a promise kept.
For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.
We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.
Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.